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| author | Damien George <damien.p.george@gmail.com> | 2017-02-04 23:33:20 +1100 |
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| committer | Damien George <damien.p.george@gmail.com> | 2017-02-15 11:12:37 +1100 |
| commit | 2847d7431d9334220445e93dc7af707821e80d5e (patch) | |
| tree | b5fdc779efcad9c93146ea8e9e331e701f706f7c /tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py | |
| parent | f2d732f4596064b3257abe571dc14ab61e02dec9 (diff) | |
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tests/thread: Replace busy waiting loops with a loop that sleeps.
Depending on the thread scheduler, a busy-wait loop can hog the CPU and
make the tests very slow. So convert such loops to loops that have an
explicit sleep, allowing the worker threads to do their job.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py b/tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py index c0256316e5..f4136d9646 100644 --- a/tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py +++ b/tests/thread/thread_qstr1.py @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ # # MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd +try: + import utime as time +except ImportError: + import time import _thread # function to check the interned string @@ -28,8 +32,8 @@ n_qstr_per_thread = 100 # make 1000 for a more stressful test (uses more heap) for i in range(n_thread): _thread.start_new_thread(th, (i * n_qstr_per_thread, n_qstr_per_thread)) -# busy wait for threads to finish +# wait for threads to finish while n_finished < n_thread: - pass + time.sleep(1) print('pass') |